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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
ntislavery movements. Indeed, the unwelcome reception which the speech met with in conservative quarters revealed the purpose to replace him in the following year with a senator of less positive convictions on the slavery question. The speech was printed in the New York Tribune and other journals, and appeared in large pamphlet editions, and through various modes of publication reached the country. In other States and in Europe It was printed in the London News at the instance of Martin F. Tupper. it encountered the same differences of opinion as in Massachusetts. It was the subject of wide discussion in the press. The distinctly antislavery journals of the Free Soil type approved it, while not only the Democratic press but the Republican press of conservative Whig traditions were clamorous against its doctrines. The political journals of Boston joined in denouncing it, and their attacks exceeded the limits of good taste,—one of them reprobating his insane counsels, and anoth
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
your object in the war, and the sole reward to be looked to. William E. Forster wrote, Nov. 22, 1861, heartily in our favor, approving Sumner's recent speech at Worcester, and expressing the hope that our government would soon hoist the standard of emancipation. Harriet Martineau complained, Nov. 18, 1862, that American opinion treated England unfairly as compared with France, as the former country had resisted the latter's pressure for breaking the blockade and for intervention. Martin F. Tupper, though of positive antislavery convictions, wrote, Nov. 9, 1862, that it would be better to let the South go than to attempt a forced union. Earl de Grey (later Marquis of Ripon), who succeeded G. C. Lewis as Secretary of War, answered, June 14, 1863, Sumner's note of congratulation, and while withholding an expression of opinion on our contest, joined heartily in Sumner's hope for a continuance of unbroken peace between the two nations. Several English friends with whom Sumner cam